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Re: Improving "file" (was Re: Making Solaris 2.1 smarter...)

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:58
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>What happens if you have a field whose value you don't test at all, or
>test with a test other than one for equality or inequality, and whose
>value you later print?

Actually, you can pile an additional hack on top of the "test both byte
orders" hack for *some* of those cases - have "file", once it finds a
match with one particular byte order, use the byte order for all
subsequent extractions of numeric data from the file.

It *is* a hack atop a hack, though, and doesn't handle the ELF case,
wherein you find out the byte order of the file by checking a one-byte
field....
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